"Despite this warning, they opened the crates and partially removed some of the explosive devices from their protective packaging while ten people were there.
This entailed removing three separate layers of packaging, including opening the protective tubing and exposing live rounds of anti-tank ammunition. There were five crates, each containing five rounds.
The HSE investigation found that UKBA had failed to carry out a suitable risk assessment to enable them to complete the checks safely. Had they done so, they would have recognised several problems.

"There was a significant risk that the ammunition could detonate if it was dropped"

Shite type bollocks non-story..bit like HSE saying sometime ago it 'was dangerous to be a soldier' or words to that effect(perhaps someone remebers the actual qoute)

I have seen squaddies fill up use their KIA mates' MFO box with fags. I have been on plunders were the barrels of AS90s were full of whiskey bottles. The ingenuity of the British Squaddie to smuggle good back to the UK knows no bounds.

Having said that, I can easily imagine the officers saying "search that? you must be having a laugh!" but being told by managers who have no clue about things to get on with it.

I have seen squaddies fill up use their KIA mates' MFO box with fags. I have been on plunders were the barrels of AS90s were full of whiskey bottles. The ingenuity of the British Squaddie to smuggle good back to the UK knows no bounds.

Having said that, I can easily imagine the officers saying "search that? you must be having a laugh!" but being told by managers who have no clue about things to get on with it.

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Regardless of the possibility of smuggling, explosive safety takes paramount on these occasions. These munitions should only have been opened and examined in the oppropriate environment, by the appropriate person - ATO, Nottingham Tp is less than an hours drive from Robin Hood Airport and there's a team on duty 24 hrs a day.

This is professional arrogance at its worst, some ******** at the airport thinking they're more important than they are.